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Re: how to set rslight to pull from a read-only peer without trying (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 52 Minutes ago by: sugarbug <truncated> Best wishes for your recovery. That you even bother to follow up shows some dedication to your project. I don't want to put pressure on you to change anything. I can send some patches your way when I have everything ironed
Re: how to set rslight to pull from a read-only peer without trying to (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 1 Day 11 Hours ago by: Retro Guy Now that I think of it, you may be able to simply comment out line 79 of cron.php echo exec($CONFIG['php_exec']." ".$config_dir."/scripts/send.php"); This should keep rslight from trying to push to remote server. This would still
Re: how to set rslight to pull from a read-only peer without trying to (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 1 Day 11 Hours ago by: Retro Guy Empty credentials won't work, as it won't poll the remote server at all. All polling the remote server work is done in /etc/rslight/scripts/spoolnews.php It should be possible to disable authentication for $ns=nntp2(...) function in /v
how to set rslight to pull from a read-only peer without trying to rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 4 Days 4 Hours ago by: sugarbug I want to be able to pull from a open NNTP server without authenticating. The remote peer is read-only INN2 and does not have or require authentication to use reader mode. Is there a way to hack rslight do this? If I just leave the credent
Re: rslite - How to configure multiple peers? (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 5 Days 9 Hours ago by: Retro Guy That is correct. Hopefully the example file makes sense. In /etc/rslight (same dir as main config: rslight.inc.php) This is all a good idea, but it's not designed that way atm. A while back, trw (who was critical to the birth o
Re: rslite - How to configure multiple peers? (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 5 Days 9 Hours ago by: sugarbug I think I may have partly figured it out. Someone please correct me if this is wrong. example.inc.php says: /* SECTION configuration file * Rename this file as your section name followed * by .inc.php: * section_name.inc.php */ So
Re: [partly solved] rslite - section in config not displaying on site. (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 6 Days 17 Hours ago by: Retro Guy Sounds good. A symlink works just fine also, and is better for upgrades as only /var/www/html/rocksolid would be updated. You need to have actual copy (or symlink) for now. If you click 'Overboard', do messages show in the list? If
Re: rslite - section in config not displaying on site. (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 6 Days 18 Hours ago by: Retro Guy This part I really want to improve, but it's necessary right now: Go to /var/www/html mkdir crypto cd crypto ln -s ../rocksolid/* . Sorry it's a bit odd, but that's how it works right now. Should be okay once the symlink is in pla
Re: [partly solved] rslite - section in config not displaying on (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 6 Days 21 Hours ago by: sugarbug <truncated> In /var/www/html I copied all files in /var/www/html/rocksolid to /var/www/html/crypto. Then the 'crypto' section showed up on the website properly, with the test newsgroups listed on the site. Do I need to copy all the php
rslite - section in config not displaying on site. rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 6 Days 22 Hours ago by: sugarbug I added a second grouping in /etc/rslight/crypto/groups.txt :/etc/rslight$ cat crypto/groups.txt :crypto newsgroups ... alt.cypherpunks alt.bitcoins alt.anonymous Note: in one later iteration I tried with crypto/ as subdir of rocksolid/
rslite - How to configure multiple peers? rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 7 Days 6 Hours ago by: sugarbug How may I configure multiple remote peers in rslite?
Re: p.s. - update - rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows no (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 7 Days 13 Hours ago by: Retro Guy There is no setup script for phpmailer so it needs to be configured manually. Should be self-explanatory but let me know if it is not.
Re: p.s. - update - rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 7 Days 13 Hours ago by: sugarbug Yes, the file is there. Can I configure it in a text editor or with a sed script? I don't see anything about it in the setup page, can I do it manually?
Re: rslight - how to block all messages with name in (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 7 Days 16 Hours ago by: Retro Guy Yes, blocking a troublesome server can be helpful. I would suggest making sure from the PATH line that the message originated at that server, and didn't just pass through it. rslight does this for posters (From:) in /etc/rslight/
Re: p.s. - update - rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows no (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 7 Days 18 Hours ago by: Retro Guy Great! It is libphp-phpmailer, as you list above. rslight does NOT fall back to php mail(). Maybe in the future, but the chances of mail being accepted are less, especially considering that a huge majority of people registering emai
rslight - how to block all messages with name in path? rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 8 Days 2 Hours ago by: sugarbug It seems the most effective method to eliminate the lion's share of spam is to block and refuse to take messages with certain server names in their path. For example blocking google groups 'google' in the path would eliminate a huge amount
Re: p.s. - update - rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 8 Days 4 Hours ago by: sugarbug The 'php-gd' install appears to fix it. One more detail: what is the exact name of the required phpmailer package on Debian? I have: 'libphp-phpmailer' installed. I assume that rslite doesn't fall back to the php mail() function if this
Re: p.s. - update - rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 8 Days 5 Hours ago by: sugarbug This was not installed. After install of php-gd, and restart of apache2, then the register.php page with captcha renders in the browser.
Re: p.s. - update - rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows no (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 8 Days 7 Hours ago by: Retro Guy I should add a check for compface as it's not critical, but it looks like you have it. Is it in your web server's path? Do you have php-gd installed? For captcha in register.php. Could you try to edit /var/www/html/rocksolid/lib/
Re: p.s. - update - rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 8 Days 10 Hours ago by: sugarbug version is: rocksolid light 0.7.2 commit 832316a13e0719b78401674b0b64d66fa4fdbcd7 Version does not display on register page. It was the latest version, freshly pulled from github last evening. Every browser tested. All the same. Fire
Re: novabbs SSL connection failure (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 8 Days 12 Hours ago by: Retro Guy I have configured ipv6 for news.novabbs.org and it seems the rslight NNTP server is working fine with it in Thuderbird (posting with it now), etc. The INN2 server does NOT work with Thuderbird, but works fine with Sylpheed. Here is the
Re: p.s. - update - rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 8 Days 13 Hours ago by: Retro Guy Well, that's disappointing! Thanks for sending so much info, it is helpful. 1. The main index of groups will not show any groups for a while after first install. It takes maybe 60 minutes of cron.php running every 5 minutes or so to
p.p.s. - update - rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 8 Days 22 Hours ago by: sugarbug Ugh, I hit send before providing all the information ... doh! arch: Debian Bullseye server: apache2 php: php7.4 The same errors occur installed with sqlite or tradspool storage. Here is the full phpinfo() dump minus the time dat
p.s. - update - rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows no (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 8 Days 23 Hours ago by: sugarbug After syncing a couple groups with the novabbs server, the html pages rendered by the local rslight install are still missing elements and data. The registration page is blank, with just the header and no registration form. The main inde
rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows no registration rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 9 Days 2 Hours ago by: sugarbug - configured apache2 and php. - ran the debian install script with default options. - accepted and saved default config at 'common/setup.php'. - ran the first cron command manually without networking on The file 'common/register.
Re: Questions on RSLite Application Features and Configuration (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 11 Days 10 Hours ago by: Retro Guy The next scheduled run will take care of it. I have not tried that, but I would see a problem in the maintaining of message number pointers for the remote server as there would be more than one server per group. This is probably ok,
Re: Questions on RSLite Application Features and Configuration (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 13 Days 9 Hours ago by: sugarbug My Thunderbird client crashed while trying to post this. I checked and it does not appear in my feed so this is another attempt. On 3/15/23 18:31, Retro Guy wrote: This seems simple and snappy. I am looking at that file right now. The
Re: Questions on RSLite Application Features and Configuration (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 14 Days 9 Hours ago by: Retro Guy With INN2, you would normally let your peer know which groups you want and they would only feed those groups. INN2 would keep track of what it's sent to you and only send new messages. rslight requests new articles by group from a serve
Re: Questions on RSLite Application Features and Configuration (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 15 Days 8 Hours ago by: SugarBug3883 My physical backup will be pulled down a slow connection with limited bandwidth. I would like it to only snarf down exactly what it needs instead of snarfing it all and sorting. That way I can back it up more often without reaching ban
Re: Questions on RSLite Application Features and Configuration (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 15 Days 11 Hours ago by: Anonymous I think this used to be relevant, but with a modern connection to the internet not anymore (say: Dsl and upwards). So unless you run your news server over mobile connection or satellite, this should not matter. To my knowledge, this i
Questions on RSLite Application Features and Configuration rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 15 Days 12 Hours ago by: SugarBug3883 1. With NNTP servers such as INN2, a peer must pull the entire feed then reject the articles from groups one does not wish to carry. This seems very slow and bandwidth inefficient. Does RSLite work the same way, or do peers in some way s
Re: How to prohibit cross-posting with RSLite? (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 17 Days 12 Hours ago by: sugarbug To handle cross-post attempts I would want it to reject them with a message that says, "Only one group allowed in Newsgroups," or "Follow up or post to only one group per message allowed." Since it is a private, hidden server, no cross-p
Re: How to prohibit cross-posting with RSLite? (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 17 Days 13 Hours ago by: Retro Guy That would take some code changes. How would you propose to handle replies to cross-posted messages? BTW, I'm working on a bug in cross-posting atm. Not fixed, but it is something I'm working on, making sure replies are cross-posted pro
How to prohibit cross-posting with RSLite? rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 17 Days 16 Hours ago by: sugarbug How to prohibit ALL client cross-posting? Restrict posting only to one newsgroup per message, both when using news reader clients and when using web front end. Also want to ensure RSLite install does not try to sync with any other servers
Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? (thread) alt.free.newsservers Posted: 19 Days 10 Hours ago by: Retro Guy Very nice! That is correct. Only accounts created on novabbs.org can authenticate with the news server on novabbs.org. Correct again. rocksolidbbs.com:119 is a Synchronet BBS NNTP server. It's not really meant to be used by other t
Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 20 Days 6 Hours ago by: sugarbug That works. So far I gather that the user must create the account on novabbs.org to post via the news.novabbs.org NNTP server. Does this mean accounts created at rocksolidbbs.com cannot post? I created accounts at both novabbs.org and
Re: Rocksolid Authentication is Hosed (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 20 Days 11 Hours ago by: Retro Guy To authenticate with novabbs.org nntp server, you must create the account on news.novabbs.org or rslight.i2p or fev4bgoasgxttqb3x3tukxxia6lwryteq6a2ramqb2gjiol3zbu6xaid.onion rocksolidbbs.com is a different server to novabbs.org. Accounts
Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 20 Days 23 Hours ago by: Troll Alert -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 👾 👿 💀 👽 👻 👺 👹 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ❗ TROLL ALERT -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ❎ TR
Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? (thread) alt.free.newsservers Posted: 20 Days 23 Hours ago by: sugarbug I got the same errors that others are getting for 480 Authentication. Authentication fails in every case at all the server addresses listed on the site. Please advise what I need to try next.
Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? (thread) alt.free.newsservers Posted: 20 Days 23 Hours ago by: Anonymous I was able to replicate these errors. The signup is a snap. But then authentication repeatedly fails. It is impossible to post to any of the rocksolid servers provided on the nodes page.
Re: Where to get NNTP access for DOVENET, FIDONET, etc. (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 24 Days ago by: Marco Moock Some news servers like eternal-september.org offer the hierarchies fido.* and fido7.*
Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 24 Days 11 Hours ago by: hooty On 04 Mar 2023, Anonymous <anonymous@anonymous.invalid> posted some news:ttv32m$1al$1@news.cyber23.de: grunt whine jolly kone parking lot Lane Bryant returns
Re: Where to get NNTP access for DOVENET, FIDONET, etc. (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 24 Days 14 Hours ago by: Nomen Nescio fidonet: https://www.fidonet.fi/
Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? (thread) alt.free.newsservers Posted: 25 Days 12 Hours ago by: Retro Guy See my other reply to you. Nntp not disabled. I don't know where other admins have gone, but I'm recovering from a very major surgery after spending 2 months in hospital. I sleep more than I type right now. If people are, please let
Re: Rocksolid Authentication is Hosed (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 25 Days 12 Hours ago by: Retro Guy That is strange. I just tested with multiple user/pass. Both 119 and 563. I have not changed anything involving authentication for a while, so no recent changes here. If you wish to send me your username and I can check some things
Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? (thread) alt.free.newsservers Posted: 25 Days 22 Hours ago by: William Stickers They all hate you, you freeloading ponce. HTH.
Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? (thread) rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 25 Days 23 Hours ago by: Anonymous What is the source of your info? Something more than monosyllabic grunt would be useful. Why are all these NNTP admins and servers suddenly going offline and incommunicado? Every administrator who does not come forward and make a publ
Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? (thread) alt.free.newsservers Posted: 26 Days ago by: William Stickers Yes. Use a different server.
Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? alt.free.newsservers Posted: 26 Days 4 Hours ago by: Anonymous I can't post to the rocksolid / novabbs server. Authentication is rejected. Error 480 on both the clearnet and tor addresses. Admin does not respond. No idea what is the problem. Has the admin disabled posting via NNTP? Has the admin gon
Rocksolid Authentication is Hosed rocksolid.nodes.help Posted: 27 Days 7 Hours ago by: Anonymous No matter what I do I cannot authenticate or post a test message. zkcvkb5xprurx5dvpanhyivneuzah6k6xayxgxd4h2ekklxgoi2x5aad.onion 119 fails authentication news.novabbs.org 563 fails authentication It worked one time. Then, without makin

Re: how to set rslight to pull from a read-only peer without trying (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 52 Minutes ago by: sugarbug

<truncated> Best wishes for your recovery. That you even bother to follow up shows some dedication to your project. I don't want to put pressure on you to change anything. I can send some patches your way when I have everything ironed

Re: how to set rslight to pull from a read-only peer without trying to (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 1 Day 11 Hours ago by: Retro Guy

Now that I think of it, you may be able to simply comment out line 79 of cron.php echo exec($CONFIG['php_exec']." ".$config_dir."/scripts/send.php"); This should keep rslight from trying to push to remote server. This would still

Re: how to set rslight to pull from a read-only peer without trying to (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 1 Day 11 Hours ago by: Retro Guy

Empty credentials won't work, as it won't poll the remote server at all. All polling the remote server work is done in /etc/rslight/scripts/spoolnews.php It should be possible to disable authentication for $ns=nntp2(...) function in /v

how to set rslight to pull from a read-only peer without trying to

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 4 Days 4 Hours ago by: sugarbug

I want to be able to pull from a open NNTP server without authenticating. The remote peer is read-only INN2 and does not have or require authentication to use reader mode. Is there a way to hack rslight do this? If I just leave the credent

Re: rslite - How to configure multiple peers? (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 5 Days 9 Hours ago by: Retro Guy

That is correct. Hopefully the example file makes sense. In /etc/rslight (same dir as main config: rslight.inc.php) This is all a good idea, but it's not designed that way atm. A while back, trw (who was critical to the birth o

Re: rslite - How to configure multiple peers? (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 5 Days 9 Hours ago by: sugarbug

I think I may have partly figured it out. Someone please correct me if this is wrong. example.inc.php says: /* SECTION configuration file * Rename this file as your section name followed * by .inc.php: * section_name.inc.php */ So

Re: [partly solved] rslite - section in config not displaying on site. (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 6 Days 17 Hours ago by: Retro Guy

Sounds good. A symlink works just fine also, and is better for upgrades as only /var/www/html/rocksolid would be updated. You need to have actual copy (or symlink) for now. If you click 'Overboard', do messages show in the list? If

Re: rslite - section in config not displaying on site. (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 6 Days 18 Hours ago by: Retro Guy

This part I really want to improve, but it's necessary right now: Go to /var/www/html mkdir crypto cd crypto ln -s ../rocksolid/* . Sorry it's a bit odd, but that's how it works right now. Should be okay once the symlink is in pla

Re: [partly solved] rslite - section in config not displaying on (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 6 Days 21 Hours ago by: sugarbug

<truncated> In /var/www/html I copied all files in /var/www/html/rocksolid to /var/www/html/crypto. Then the 'crypto' section showed up on the website properly, with the test newsgroups listed on the site. Do I need to copy all the php

rslite - section in config not displaying on site.

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 6 Days 22 Hours ago by: sugarbug

I added a second grouping in /etc/rslight/crypto/groups.txt :/etc/rslight$ cat crypto/groups.txt :crypto newsgroups ... alt.cypherpunks alt.bitcoins alt.anonymous Note: in one later iteration I tried with crypto/ as subdir of rocksolid/

rslite - How to configure multiple peers?

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 7 Days 6 Hours ago by: sugarbug

How may I configure multiple remote peers in rslite?

Re: p.s. - update - rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows no (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 7 Days 13 Hours ago by: Retro Guy

There is no setup script for phpmailer so it needs to be configured manually. Should be self-explanatory but let me know if it is not.

Re: p.s. - update - rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 7 Days 13 Hours ago by: sugarbug

Yes, the file is there. Can I configure it in a text editor or with a sed script? I don't see anything about it in the setup page, can I do it manually?

Re: rslight - how to block all messages with name in (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 7 Days 16 Hours ago by: Retro Guy

Yes, blocking a troublesome server can be helpful. I would suggest making sure from the PATH line that the message originated at that server, and didn't just pass through it. rslight does this for posters (From:) in /etc/rslight/

Re: p.s. - update - rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows no (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 7 Days 18 Hours ago by: Retro Guy

Great! It is libphp-phpmailer, as you list above. rslight does NOT fall back to php mail(). Maybe in the future, but the chances of mail being accepted are less, especially considering that a huge majority of people registering emai

rslight - how to block all messages with name in path?

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 8 Days 2 Hours ago by: sugarbug

It seems the most effective method to eliminate the lion's share of spam is to block and refuse to take messages with certain server names in their path. For example blocking google groups 'google' in the path would eliminate a huge amount

Re: p.s. - update - rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 8 Days 4 Hours ago by: sugarbug

The 'php-gd' install appears to fix it. One more detail: what is the exact name of the required phpmailer package on Debian? I have: 'libphp-phpmailer' installed. I assume that rslite doesn't fall back to the php mail() function if this

Re: p.s. - update - rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 8 Days 5 Hours ago by: sugarbug

This was not installed. After install of php-gd, and restart of apache2, then the register.php page with captcha renders in the browser.

Re: p.s. - update - rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows no (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 8 Days 7 Hours ago by: Retro Guy

I should add a check for compface as it's not critical, but it looks like you have it. Is it in your web server's path? Do you have php-gd installed? For captcha in register.php. Could you try to edit /var/www/html/rocksolid/lib/

Re: p.s. - update - rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 8 Days 10 Hours ago by: sugarbug

version is: rocksolid light 0.7.2 commit 832316a13e0719b78401674b0b64d66fa4fdbcd7 Version does not display on register page. It was the latest version, freshly pulled from github last evening. Every browser tested. All the same. Fire

Re: novabbs SSL connection failure (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 8 Days 12 Hours ago by: Retro Guy

I have configured ipv6 for news.novabbs.org and it seems the rslight NNTP server is working fine with it in Thuderbird (posting with it now), etc. The INN2 server does NOT work with Thuderbird, but works fine with Sylpheed. Here is the

Re: p.s. - update - rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 8 Days 13 Hours ago by: Retro Guy

Well, that's disappointing! Thanks for sending so much info, it is helpful. 1. The main index of groups will not show any groups for a while after first install. It takes maybe 60 minutes of cron.php running every 5 minutes or so to

p.p.s. - update - rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 8 Days 22 Hours ago by: sugarbug

Ugh, I hit send before providing all the information ... doh! arch: Debian Bullseye server: apache2 php: php7.4 The same errors occur installed with sqlite or tradspool storage. Here is the full phpinfo() dump minus the time dat

p.s. - update - rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows no (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 8 Days 23 Hours ago by: sugarbug

After syncing a couple groups with the novabbs server, the html pages rendered by the local rslight install are still missing elements and data. The registration page is blank, with just the header and no registration form. The main inde

rslite error - page 'common/register.php' shows no registration

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 9 Days 2 Hours ago by: sugarbug

- configured apache2 and php. - ran the debian install script with default options. - accepted and saved default config at 'common/setup.php'. - ran the first cron command manually without networking on The file 'common/register.

Re: Questions on RSLite Application Features and Configuration (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 11 Days 10 Hours ago by: Retro Guy

The next scheduled run will take care of it. I have not tried that, but I would see a problem in the maintaining of message number pointers for the remote server as there would be more than one server per group. This is probably ok,

Re: Questions on RSLite Application Features and Configuration (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 13 Days 9 Hours ago by: sugarbug

My Thunderbird client crashed while trying to post this. I checked and it does not appear in my feed so this is another attempt. On 3/15/23 18:31, Retro Guy wrote: This seems simple and snappy. I am looking at that file right now. The

Re: Questions on RSLite Application Features and Configuration (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 14 Days 9 Hours ago by: Retro Guy

With INN2, you would normally let your peer know which groups you want and they would only feed those groups. INN2 would keep track of what it's sent to you and only send new messages. rslight requests new articles by group from a serve

Re: Questions on RSLite Application Features and Configuration (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 15 Days 8 Hours ago by: SugarBug3883

My physical backup will be pulled down a slow connection with limited bandwidth. I would like it to only snarf down exactly what it needs instead of snarfing it all and sorting. That way I can back it up more often without reaching ban

Re: Questions on RSLite Application Features and Configuration (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 15 Days 11 Hours ago by: Anonymous

I think this used to be relevant, but with a modern connection to the internet not anymore (say: Dsl and upwards). So unless you run your news server over mobile connection or satellite, this should not matter. To my knowledge, this i

Questions on RSLite Application Features and Configuration

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 15 Days 12 Hours ago by: SugarBug3883

1. With NNTP servers such as INN2, a peer must pull the entire feed then reject the articles from groups one does not wish to carry. This seems very slow and bandwidth inefficient. Does RSLite work the same way, or do peers in some way s

Re: How to prohibit cross-posting with RSLite? (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 17 Days 12 Hours ago by: sugarbug

To handle cross-post attempts I would want it to reject them with a message that says, "Only one group allowed in Newsgroups," or "Follow up or post to only one group per message allowed." Since it is a private, hidden server, no cross-p

Re: How to prohibit cross-posting with RSLite? (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 17 Days 13 Hours ago by: Retro Guy

That would take some code changes. How would you propose to handle replies to cross-posted messages? BTW, I'm working on a bug in cross-posting atm. Not fixed, but it is something I'm working on, making sure replies are cross-posted pro

How to prohibit cross-posting with RSLite?

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 17 Days 16 Hours ago by: sugarbug

How to prohibit ALL client cross-posting? Restrict posting only to one newsgroup per message, both when using news reader clients and when using web front end. Also want to ensure RSLite install does not try to sync with any other servers

Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? (thread)

alt.free.newsservers

Posted: 19 Days 10 Hours ago by: Retro Guy

Very nice! That is correct. Only accounts created on novabbs.org can authenticate with the news server on novabbs.org. Correct again. rocksolidbbs.com:119 is a Synchronet BBS NNTP server. It's not really meant to be used by other t

Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 20 Days 6 Hours ago by: sugarbug

That works. So far I gather that the user must create the account on novabbs.org to post via the news.novabbs.org NNTP server. Does this mean accounts created at rocksolidbbs.com cannot post? I created accounts at both novabbs.org and

Re: Rocksolid Authentication is Hosed (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 20 Days 11 Hours ago by: Retro Guy

To authenticate with novabbs.org nntp server, you must create the account on news.novabbs.org or rslight.i2p or fev4bgoasgxttqb3x3tukxxia6lwryteq6a2ramqb2gjiol3zbu6xaid.onion rocksolidbbs.com is a different server to novabbs.org. Accounts

Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 20 Days 23 Hours ago by: Troll Alert

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Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? (thread)

alt.free.newsservers

Posted: 20 Days 23 Hours ago by: sugarbug

I got the same errors that others are getting for 480 Authentication. Authentication fails in every case at all the server addresses listed on the site. Please advise what I need to try next.

Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? (thread)

alt.free.newsservers

Posted: 20 Days 23 Hours ago by: Anonymous

I was able to replicate these errors. The signup is a snap. But then authentication repeatedly fails. It is impossible to post to any of the rocksolid servers provided on the nodes page.

Re: Where to get NNTP access for DOVENET, FIDONET, etc. (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 24 Days ago by: Marco Moock

Some news servers like eternal-september.org offer the hierarchies fido.* and fido7.*

Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 24 Days 11 Hours ago by: hooty

On 04 Mar 2023, Anonymous <anonymous@anonymous.invalid> posted some news:ttv32m$1al$1@news.cyber23.de: grunt whine jolly kone parking lot Lane Bryant returns

Re: Where to get NNTP access for DOVENET, FIDONET, etc. (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 24 Days 14 Hours ago by: Nomen Nescio

fidonet: https://www.fidonet.fi/

Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? (thread)

alt.free.newsservers

Posted: 25 Days 12 Hours ago by: Retro Guy

See my other reply to you. Nntp not disabled. I don't know where other admins have gone, but I'm recovering from a very major surgery after spending 2 months in hospital. I sleep more than I type right now. If people are, please let

Re: Rocksolid Authentication is Hosed (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 25 Days 12 Hours ago by: Retro Guy

That is strange. I just tested with multiple user/pass. Both 119 and 563. I have not changed anything involving authentication for a while, so no recent changes here. If you wish to send me your username and I can check some things

Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? (thread)

alt.free.newsservers

Posted: 25 Days 22 Hours ago by: William Stickers

They all hate you, you freeloading ponce. HTH.

Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? (thread)

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 25 Days 23 Hours ago by: Anonymous

What is the source of your info? Something more than monosyllabic grunt would be useful. Why are all these NNTP admins and servers suddenly going offline and incommunicado? Every administrator who does not come forward and make a publ

Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help? (thread)

alt.free.newsservers

Posted: 26 Days ago by: William Stickers

Yes. Use a different server.

Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help?

alt.free.newsservers

Posted: 26 Days 4 Hours ago by: Anonymous

I can't post to the rocksolid / novabbs server. Authentication is rejected. Error 480 on both the clearnet and tor addresses. Admin does not respond. No idea what is the problem. Has the admin disabled posting via NNTP? Has the admin gon

Rocksolid Authentication is Hosed

rocksolid.nodes.help

Posted: 27 Days 7 Hours ago by: Anonymous

No matter what I do I cannot authenticate or post a test message. zkcvkb5xprurx5dvpanhyivneuzah6k6xayxgxd4h2ekklxgoi2x5aad.onion 119 fails authentication news.novabbs.org 563 fails authentication It worked one time. Then, without makin

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